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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOSHUA</span>
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CHAPTER 20
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Six cities of refuge appointed for those guilty of manslaughter.
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The</span><span class='smallcaps'> Lord</span> also spake unto Joshua, saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/20/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Refuge.">refuge</a>, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
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That the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/20/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 134: 2 (2-5).">slayer</a> that killeth <i>any</i> person <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/20/3b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB by mistake, or by accident.">unawares</a> <i>and</i> unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
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And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/20/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ruth 4: 1; Mosiah 7: 10.">gate</a> of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/20/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ruth 4: 2 (1-2); 1 Ne. 4: 22 (22, 27); Alma 4: 16 (7, 16); Moro. 6: 7.">elders</a> of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
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And if the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/20/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 35: 12 (11-34).">avenger</a> of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
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And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, <i>and</i> until the death of the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/20/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 35: 25.">high</a> priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
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&#182; And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which <i>is</i> Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
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And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/20/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 21: 38.">Gilead</a> out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
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These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/20/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 35: 15.">stranger</a> that <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/20/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 17: 8 (7-9); Judg. 19: 16.">sojourneth</a> among them, that whosoever killeth <i>any</i> person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
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